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Category Archives: comixology
Marvel announces weekly comic content
As expected, Marvel has announced a new weekly comic book series that is part of the Marvel Comics Infinite Comics initiative launched last year. And as we guessed, Wolverine takes front and center.
DIGITAL COMICS: 215 Ink now on comiXology
215 Ink has announced that its catalog of titles is coming to the comiXology app.
DIGITAL COMICS: ComiXology wants indie creators to Submit
Press Release
Starting now, independent comic book and graphic novel creators can build a worldwide following and profit from their work. Through a portal called comiXology Submit, from comiXology, the revolutionary digital comics platform, independent creators simply need to upload their comic book and graphic novels for approval at no cost. ComiXology does the rest, from transforming the work with comiXology’s Guided View™ reading technology, to making it available on comiXology’s buy once, read anywhere digital comics platform, which includes an iTunes top 10-grossing iPad app, iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire and Windows 8 apps, and a web store and reader at www.comixology.com. Creators and comiXology equally split all profits, with creators maintaining full ownership of their work.
SNEAK PEEK: Artful Daggers
Arriving on comiXology today is the first issue of Artful Daggers by Adam P. Knave, Sean E. Williams, and Andrew Losq. Monkeybrain Comics sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek, that you can check out, after the jump!
On the Next Major Spoilers Podcast: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 1
This week, the Major Spoilers Podcast takes a look at classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by going all the way back to the very first issues.
This tale of the original TMNT expands the Turtles universe! After a big Mouser battle, Splinter’s gone missing and it’s up to his ninja turtle sons to find him. But, little do they know, an extraterrestrial surprise of cosmic proportions awaits them at the end of their search!
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DIGITAL COMICS: Red 5 and comiXology team for first ever digital convention exclusive
Press Release
ComiXology, Red 5 Comics & Emerald City Comicon have teamed up to bring fans the first-ever digital convention exclusive — Atomic Robo: Along Came a Tyrantula. Every ECCC ’13 badge holder will find a redemption code on the back of their convention badge that entitles them to this digital only Atomic Robo comic. Fans at the show will be the first to experience this first of its kind convention exclusive that showcases how comiXology makes exciting new, immersive and innovative storytelling techniques possible by utilizing comiXology’s Guided View technology – that can only be experienced on comiXology!
SNEAK PEEK: Amelia Cole and the Unknown World #6
The latest issue of Amelia Cole and the Unknown World arrives in digital format today, and Monkeybrain Comics sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek!
DIGITAL COMICS: Final free digital preview of Hawken: Genesis comes with redemption code
Press Release
The fourth and final installment arrives through comiXology Feb. 13, 2013 and features a code for 50% off the full HAWKEN: GENESIS graphic novel on comiXology and a code to redeem for 5,000 In-Game Credits for HAWKEN™. With thousands of players engaged in the free-to-play online video game since its Open Beta in December, award-winning graphic novel publisher Archaia Entertainment and free-to-play video game publisher Meteor Entertainment™ want to thank the HAWKEN community.
DIGITAL COMICS: ICON titles land on comiXology
Press Release
Today comiXology – the revolutionary digital comics platform available across the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire and the Web – and Mark Millar, creator of Kick-Ass and one of the most celebrated comic authors of all time, announced today the exclusive English language digital debut of two Millar ICON series, Nemesis and Hit-Girl, with plans for more os his ICON digital releases forthcoming!
DIGITAL COMICS: ComiXology begins International push with ComiXology Europe
Press Release
Today comiXology, the revolutionary digital comics platform that recently surpassed 100 million downloads of comic books and graphic novels worldwide, announced the formation of “comiXology Europe”, a division of the company that will be spearheading the acquisition of international language content across the European continent. ComiXology Europe will be headquartered in Paris, France.
DIGITAL COMICS: comiXology shows off first truly digital variant comic book cover
Press Release
Award-winning graphic novel publisher Archaia Entertainment has teamed up with Ishinomori Production Inc. and comiXology—the revolutionary digital comics platform boasting iTunes’ #3 top grossing iPad app of 2012—to deliver the first “truly digital” variant comic book cover! Created specifically for comiXology’s Guided View reading technology, the cover to Cyborg 009: Chapter 000 celebrates the 75th birthday of legendary manga creator Shotaro Ishinomori, known the world over for creating Go Rangers (the precursor to Power Rangers), Cyborg 009, Kamen Rider (a.k.a. Masked Rider), Kikaider, and Skull Man.